#dying

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#because #dying #family #famous #filmmakers

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#bit #dying #every #existence #growing

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#dying #earth #horizontal #into #power

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. ↗

— Barry Mann

#architecture #college #i #i quit #quit

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?' ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#arrived #big #boom #boy #cast

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#dying #his #man #more #own

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#believed #discipline #doing #education #get

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#am #bucket #day #dying #feel